How to make voluntary reading work everywhere and with everyone
with Anna Maksimenko
I am a lazy teacher and why you should be, too!
with Anka Zapart
January 29, 2023
12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Online meeting
Guest Speakers:
Anna Maksimenko
(a CELTA & DELTA (Module 1) - certified English Teacher)
Anka Zapart
(CELTA, IH TYL, a Senior ADOS for VYL, a Freelance Teacher and Teacher Trainer)
12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Online meeting
Guest Speakers:
Anna Maksimenko
(a CELTA & DELTA (Module 1) - certified English Teacher)
Anka Zapart
(CELTA, IH TYL, a Senior ADOS for VYL, a Freelance Teacher and Teacher Trainer)
About the Speakers
Anna Maksimenko
Anna Maksimenko
Anna Maksimenko is a self-employed CELTA and DELTA (module 1) - qualified English teacher based in Slovenia. She has been teaching English to groups of students and individuals, both online and offline, since 2015. Having taught different age groups, she has realised her favourites are teenagers and adults. Her teaching belief is that a perfect approach to teaching is a combination of various methods and approaches depending on the lesson objectives and individual students' differences as well as preferences. Teach - reflect - adjust - repeat!
Anna Maksimenko is a self-employed CELTA and DELTA (module 1) - qualified English teacher based in Slovenia. She has been teaching English to groups of students and individuals, both online and offline, since 2015. Having taught different age groups, she has realised her favourites are teenagers and adults. Her teaching belief is that a perfect approach to teaching is a combination of various methods and approaches depending on the lesson objectives and individual students' differences as well as preferences. Teach - reflect - adjust - repeat!
Anka Zapart
Anka Zapart
Anka Zapart is a freelance teacher and teacher trainer. She has taught for more than 15+ in Poland, the UK, Spain, Brazil and Russia. Her professional interests include second language acquisition in pre-schoolers in instructed settings, assessment for VYL and YL, literacy in the early years and material development. Currently, she lives in Poland.
She writes about teaching at https://funkysocksanddragons.com/
Anka Zapart is a freelance teacher and teacher trainer. She has taught for more than 15+ in Poland, the UK, Spain, Brazil and Russia. Her professional interests include second language acquisition in pre-schoolers in instructed settings, assessment for VYL and YL, literacy in the early years and material development. Currently, she lives in Poland.
She writes about teaching at https://funkysocksanddragons.com/
About the Workshop
How to make voluntary reading work everywhere and with everyone.
This talk will focus on how to implement extensive reading practices into a course in any context, and what activities can be used in class to motivate students to read voluntarily. To begin with, we will briefly focus on the term and its characteristics, as well as the benefits of extensive reading. Then we will talk about the teacher's role in extensive reading programmes, reading motivation and ways to increase it. We will also focus on reading materials selection. Finally, Annna will describe her own experience and share some practical ideas and reading sources. She will use the following sources: "Free Voluntary Reading'' by Stephen D. Krashen; ''Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language'' by Julian Bamford, Richard R. Day; Article ''Extensive reading and changes to reading motivation in EFL among Slovene primary school pupils'' by Anja Pirih.
I am a lazy teacher and why you should be, too!
Laziness is not a quality that you would frequently see on the list of The Top 10 Things a Teacher Should Be. Surprise, surprise! In this session, however, Anka will show you that it does not always have to be the case. In fact, being lazy (or 'lazy') can be beneficial, for the teacher, for the lesson and for the YL in the classroom, especially as regards coursebooks and materials.
This talk will focus on how to implement extensive reading practices into a course in any context, and what activities can be used in class to motivate students to read voluntarily. To begin with, we will briefly focus on the term and its characteristics, as well as the benefits of extensive reading. Then we will talk about the teacher's role in extensive reading programmes, reading motivation and ways to increase it. We will also focus on reading materials selection. Finally, Annna will describe her own experience and share some practical ideas and reading sources. She will use the following sources: "Free Voluntary Reading'' by Stephen D. Krashen; ''Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language'' by Julian Bamford, Richard R. Day; Article ''Extensive reading and changes to reading motivation in EFL among Slovene primary school pupils'' by Anja Pirih.
I am a lazy teacher and why you should be, too!
Laziness is not a quality that you would frequently see on the list of The Top 10 Things a Teacher Should Be. Surprise, surprise! In this session, however, Anka will show you that it does not always have to be the case. In fact, being lazy (or 'lazy') can be beneficial, for the teacher, for the lesson and for the YL in the classroom, especially as regards coursebooks and materials.
TMLC Online: Voluntary Reading & Effective "Lazy" Teaching
An excerpt of the presentation given by Anna Maksimenko and Anka Zapart at the 2023 January meeting of the Teacher Mentor Learning Community.
